Description: Text extraction is a task that many developers face every day. As superficially simple as it may sound, this task becomes a real problem when the program should efficiently work with a large number of document types and formats. Writing your own components may require too much time and efforts, which otherwise could have been invested into improving the program core and general optimization. There are many extractors available on the market for each document type, but their aggregate cost may by far exceed your budget for this aspect of your application. If you are looking for an affordable, stable, easy-to-use and elegant solution for text extraction in .NET environment, make sure you don’t miss Gears.IFilterHelper! Based on a proprietary technology by Microsoft Corp. – IFilters – and a corresponding API, Gears.IFilterHelper greatly facilitates and expedites tasks related to extracting text from a variety of sources, from familiar Word documents to Adobe PDF files and much, much more. The goal and motto of Gears.IFilterHelper developers was to turn the complexity of IFilters API into the transparency and intuitive approach implemented in Gears.IFilterHelper, focus on the most important and demanded areas of functionality. The staple advantages of the library: - Extracts text from files - Supports .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0 - C#, VB.NET and other CLS-compliant languages - Works with any well-written IFilters - Also supports Adobe PDF Ifilter 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 - Automatically detects installed IFilters - Provides extended information about IFilters Being a simple and focused .NET library written entirely in C#, Gears.IFilterHelper.Net can be used for any .NET application, allowing you to start extracting text by adding just a few lines of code. Apart from being an efficient IFilters wrapper, the component is great at what it was designed for – getting this text out of a wide assortment of file formats! Try Gears.IFilterHelper and it will never let you down.